Favoritos de beetledude

Tiny snails

Never bigger than ~1 cm, or uhm, then I find a handful on one spot, and some of than are a little bit bigger than 1 cm! The first time I have found so many of them at a time! They have been part of the "how well is the garden doing gauge" for more than twenty years! (Yes, they make me happy!)

Utricularia

In farm dam. Plants free-floating. Numerous traps on leaves. In some cases there are air-bubbles in the traps - this may be an artifact of handling after collection. Traps lateral on leaf segments - not confined to axils. Trap mouth naked or only with a few sparse branches. No flowers seen.
Thanks to Ian & Rob who collected the plant.

Mawdsley's review separates from ralphi by size (and characters of the end of the male elytra; which I cannot make out here); the last joint of my thumb is 35mm long, and the beetle, frons to tip of elytra, is close enough to that that it must comfortably exceed the 20mm threshold between the two species.

Plant whose flower is getting munched should be some sort of hibiscus, I think.